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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Bag cards

Welcome once again - thank you for visiting, and thank you so much for all your warm wishes regarding my health. Thankfully I am very much on the mend after a few hiccups, and loads of vitamin C and Olive Leaf extract!

The other day I was challenged to make cards for a couple of young girls - not once but twice, as two of the customers I make cards for send cards to these girls. Thus I chose a different shape so they would look totally different.

I reduced the original pattern as these needed to be posted, and varied them by using different papers to cover them, although I used the labels 20 die and the same sentiment stamp on both. The papers were from a packet I bought some years ago from a chain store.

To further add individuality to the cards I used different elements to decorate the inside.

The butterfly was stamped on orange card and embossed using blue embossing powder, and a blue rhinestone added to the body.

The embellishment on this one was made by stamping a wee stamp (from the retired Layers Of Color set, Architectural Blocks) onto pre-punched squares, and then tea bag folded them into a kite shape. A technique that Michelle has used a lot recently inspired me to try this.

I finished the card with a magnet on the inside of the tag and the outside of the bag, and a coloured rhinestone on the outside of the tag. The inside was finished with a white liner to be written on.

These are FABULOUS and I love that you showed the inside too. They're going to LOVE them.So glad you joined the Sassy DTeam in the anything goes challenge this week at Sassy Cheryl's. Good luck in the drawing.

oh wow, Maxine...your purses are amazing!! and your tea bag folding looks great to me!! You had the perfect stamp for it too!They are so fun to do...different ink...totally different look!Thanks for sharing your link with me! BIG HUGS from my side of the world to yours! :)